Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 03, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ltoF08ITRIBUNE "Iveryone In Southern Oregcm Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-14I ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor UALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Ppr Coo 10c Dally and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 .Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4-23 Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. bnaov cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 tamer and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance 6fflclal Paper of the City of Medford iiiriai paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY rNC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOIIAt I assocS-ai2n '- itmnruaTTTTTTM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. C. 1947 (Wednesday) A Jackson county sales tax committee was organized Tues day at a meeting of Medford and Ashland men interested in promoting the tax. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge pot column: The curfew law is now in effect int he new metropolis, due to school start ing, and the hour is 10:15 p.m. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 3. 1937 (Friday) An "Enrollee's Handbook," designed to familiarize recruits with customs and regulations of CCC, will be issued to new men in the Medford district. Fishing conditions in general are poor in the Butte Falls dis trict; no catches have been re ported from any of the lakes or streams. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 3, 1927 (Saturday) Roseburg will send a special train to Medford's Visions Re alized jubilee. The Park Rooms on West Main street, near the city park, were raided late last night, after the rooming house cook had been arrested with two gallons of liquor. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 3, 1917 (Monday) The safety deposit vaults in the Jacksonville bank were drilled into some time early Saturday morning and $600 in each and $500 in jewelry taken. Jackson county pioneers will meet Sept. 13 in Ashland's Lith ia park. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Smoking is, or is not, per mitted by members while on the floors of Congress? 2. Did Henry Wallace, Henry Clay, or Henry Adams say: "I would rather be right than Pres ident"? 3. Bible: "And upon this rock will I build" what? 4. Are Negroes barred from enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps? 5. In mythology, who is repre sented as bearing the earth on his shoulders? 6. Eamon de Valera is a statesman of Spain, Eire, Portu gal, or Argentina? 7. Is the bugle call revielle sounded to arouse soldiers in the morning, or to signal "lights out" in the evening? 8. Name the first Secretary General of the United Nations. 9. "Ain't," despite wide usage, is still considered illiterate. Is "aren't I" accepted as good usage? 10. "Jack and J they think r,o ill. But loving live and marry still." Is the missing name Jane, Jill, or John? Answers: 1. Is not permitted. 2. Henry Clay. 3. "My Church." 4. No. 5. Atlas. 6. Eire. 7. To arouse soldiers in the morning. 8. Trygve Lie. 9. No. "Am I not" is proper. 10. No. "Joan." From T. Sampion's poem "Jack and Joan." ANGLER ANGLES CASH Hewlett, N.Y. OP) An angler with all the angles angled him self some quick cash at the Nas sau bus company Monday. Po lice said a burglar used a hook and line device to fish 10 bags containing $550 from a chute used for depositing fares by driv ers coming off duty. . . MAIL TRIBUNE A Record The Southern Oregon golf tournament completed yesterday set a new record for this section of the state and we believe any other part of the coast for that matter. It was simply tops in all directions. There was not only a record number of entries, but record-breaking galleries. The latter did not only excel in numbers but in manners. Naturally it was largely a Medford gallery, and just as naturally it favored the "home town' boy," but it displayed the best possible sportsmanship throughout, applauding good shots whether made by Getchell or Cresson and both made plenty. THERE was another record in the quality of golf for an amateur tourney. When par-golf, one-under and two-under, are BEATEN that is something to broadcast for the golf-book. And under the heading of competition close and exciting matches the thing that puts the drama in all sports practically all the important contests were decided on the 18th hole or the 36th nip and tuck all the way throughout the week-end. A GREAT show from the And finally, let no one if the tournament committee, which did such a grand job, had ordered the day-to-day weather they could hardly have done better. Well done everybody. The Southern Oregon of 1957 will be something long to remember. R.W.R. What About Teen-Age Decency? As a reminder that the majority of the nation's teen-agers are decent, law-abiding citizens, Parents' Magazine this week commented in part as follows: In Leland, Michigan, a Boy Scout Troop hauled 66 tons of rock from a twenty-five mile radius to aid the spawning of trout, as part of a conservation program that also included the planting of 453,000 trees to eliminate soil erosion. IN WEST WOOD, New Jersey, the already over- crowded high school had to give house room to five elementary classes. Twenty high school coeds gave up lunch hours to supervise the little ones and give their teachers a noon break. . In New Haven, New York, there was no library. Thirteen Girl Scouts collected, catalogued and stamped more than 2,000 books, arranged for use of the basement of the local Grange Hall, made book shelves and other furnishings, got a retired librarian to train them and are now manning the library themselves. IN PRESCOTT, Arizona, 63 youngsters volunteered to operate the community swimming pool, then raised money to provide a much-needed clubhouse for teens bv selling1 Youth Bonds. Ten vear olds in Brooklyn have "adopted" as grandparents the lonely inmates of an old people's home, a group in Georgia has organized the first scout troop tor blind children, the area razed m me disas trous forest fire in Malibu, California, was reseeded by the Youth Fellowship of Congregational Church in "THERE are thousands of such groups in this country and millions of teen-agers similarly engaged in useful work. The contributions of these youngsters should not be obscured by the notoriety that a small anti-social percentage of our juvenile population enjoys. "Stop Look We might state at the of the government ownership 01 railroads. So "shake not your gory locks" at us when we m-oceedNto predict that: If the political power of nublic be damned" type in increase, and the power of within the states, but via the Interstate Commerce commission continues to de cline ; the time will come eventually, when the people of the country, as a whole, will arise on their hind legs, and decide that through their government they will run the railroads instead of the railroads running them. 'THAT, of course, is a very "IFY" prediction. " It is based upon the assumption that" the rail road heads that have learned nothing since the "in surgent days of the SP dynasty and Hiram Johnson, will continue in power, and that not only the roads that place profit above the public welfare will con tinue along that line but also that their numbers will increase. .. IF that does happen, then our warning is "Watch 1 Out!" For as political history shows there is a limit to what the people in this democracy will stand. And if things do go from bad to worse in the field of rail transportation until the issue is clearly drawn between what the people want and what the railroads refuse to give, it takes no "Seventh Son of a Seventh son" to figure out where the people the voters of the countiy will stand. As remarked we hope that time never comes. But if it does come let the political and spiritual legatees of Commodore Vanderbilt refrain from blaming it all on "creeping socialism" and cock - eyed American radicalism. For they will have only THEMSELVES to blame! R.W.R. Tuesday, September 3, I9S7 Breaker first tee-shot to the last forget the Weather Man the La Mesa Community banta .Barbara. . and Listen 99 outset we are NOT in favor railroads of "the greedy this country' continues to control over them not only such national controls as ZBMBMBBR.MOM... .IF X?U C4N'r SAY SOMETHING NICE, VOHT SAy AHYTWH6 AT ALL Matter of Fact ey Joseph aiSoP SIGNIFICANCE OF HERR STRAUSS Bonn Germany The Tnost formidable, intersting, and con troversial new figure as yet thrown up by the post-occupation Germany of great recovery period is the Minister of De fense, Franz Josef Strauss. Intense ambition, ruthless in telligence and abounding en ergy are the chief char acteristics of this young South Ger man who enr teredpolicitcs by the back door, so to Joseph Aisop speak, as a clerk in a local government of fice in the early occupation years. He is a brilliant speaker, too one might also say a bril liant potential demagogue. In the present election cam paign, he needs all his talents on the stump. As Minister of Defense, he is rearming Ger many, not quite fast enough to satisfy the N.A.T.O. High Com mand but altogether too fast to please the opposition to the Ade nauer government. So Strauss is a principle Socialist target, and his campaign meetings have sometimes verged on riot. TN SUM, this stocky, florid- looking, still youthful man, is already an important person ality in German politics. But this was not the reason why the youthful Defense Minister struck me'as being something of a hu man portent. He seemed so sig nificant, rather, because he and Chancellor Adenauer were just about the only Germans I have "encountered on this return to Germany after five years ab sence, who seemed fully con scious of the vast new German weight in the world balance. Almost all Germans are still too absorbed in rebuilding their country to have noticed the change in their country's posi tion. They look blankly bewil dered, if you point out that Ger many is already challenging Britain's place as third power in the world and second power in the West. Chancellor Adenauer, the leader who presided over the German recovery, is of course well aware of his own success. But the Chancellor's program for the German future has al ways been crystal clear in his own mind, and success has not changed his mind in the least. IN just this respect, there is a a vital shade of difference be tween the Chancellor and his De fense Minister. Strauss, like Adenauer, clearly thinks of Ger many as a great new weight in the world balance. Strauss is also committed to the Adenauer policy of a Germany that will make its future both within Eu rope and within the Western Al liance. But in the case of Strauss, so nearly as I could judge after a long, frank talk in his modest office, the commitment to the Adenauer policy is not absolute and irrevocable. It is, you might say, only a conditional commit ment. In this sense, you might also say, Strauss pre-figures that Germany which must come after Adenauer. Most of our talk together was taken up by Strauss' incisive ex planation of hiS defense pro gram, which will add 12 German divisions to N.A.T.O's Western European "shield" force, by the end of 1960. But there were two exchanges with a much larger resonance. The first was occa sioned by mention of the debate in London about "closing the membership of the atomic club'". by .halting - all . nuclear testing. Strauss at once commented vig orously: "We Germans think that the problem of control of the atomic weapons cannot possibly be solved if more and more nations are to begin producing those weapons. We don't want that to happen. We don t want to pro duce atomic weapons ourselves. But if some way out of this di lemma is not found, so that all nations, even small and irre sponsible nations, are becoming atomic powers, then obviously the German position will need to be reexamined." ONCE again Strauss revealed his mind, and even more viv idly, in response to a mention of reports from Washington of new defense economies in the Ameri can budget. -According to these reports, the Pentagon was again being tempted to save men and money by sharply reducing the American contribution of divis ions to N.A.T.O. Again, Strauss commented vigorously: "On that point, I can only quote Gen. Norstead, who has said and I use his own words that he will not be able to bear the responsibility for the shield defense of Western Europe, , if the shield is unduly lightened. "Speaking more generally, I think all the leaders of the West ern nations must constantly bear in mind that the Western Al liance is today squarely based on a distribution of national re sponsibilities. If the distribution of responsibilities breaks down, because some nations 'do not want to bear ther responsibili ties or because some seek to bear the responsibilities of others, then you will get a wholly new situation. Yim will get a situa tion of 'everyone for himself.' And if that situation arises, Ger many also will have to follow the same course, because there is no alternative." There it was, in a nutshell. (Copyright, 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I reckon you've been reading a lot and hearing a lot about the civil rights bill that has just been passed by the congress and sent to the White House for the President's expected signature. There has been a lot of shoot ing about it (words, not ballets.) You may be asking: "Is it good?" "Or is it bad?" THERE are conflicting opin ions. A spokesman for a Southern anti-integration group the White Citizens Council says this morning in Jackson Missis sippi: "Reconstruction No. 2 has now been officially declared up on the former Confederate states." Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, speaking in a more moderate tone, says the South must be prepared for "difficult times" now that congress has passed a civil rights bill that the President is expected to sign. He predicts that the bill will be constantly used by federal ; otticiais against the South. T ET"S turn now to Senator Morse of Oregon, who leaves Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan l Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. Strengthened Cooperation Seen Between Independent Red Chiefs By CHARLES M. McCANN United Preis Correspondent Eastern Europe's two inde pendent Communist leaders evi dently have decided to strength en their coop eration. It has been made known that Polish Communist leader Wladys lawGomulka is to visit Presi dent Tito o f Yugoslavia in Charles McCano miQ-sepiem- ber. It will be the first get-together of Polish and Yugoslav leaders since Tito broke away Today and By Walter POLITICAL SPECULATION In the Wisconsin election last week the winner, Sen. Proxmire, ran strongly both in the cities; and in the ru ral c o u n ties, There is noth i n g unusual about a Demo crat doing well in the cities, when he has, as Mr. Walter Mppraana iTOXmire aid, the full support of organized labor. But what happened " in the rural counties, which are traditionally Republican? Two things seem to have hap pened. There was, on the one hand, the local Republcian ma chine, controlled by the Mc Carthy wing of the party, seem ed to have refused to work for Gov. Kohler, who was running as an Eisenhower Republican. Thus both ends were against the Eisenhower candidate in. the middle. The left wing was against him because the. admin istration policies have not done enough for- the farmers and the small businessmen; The right wing was against him because Eisenhower is by its standard an obnoxious progressive. Logically, this does not make any sense that the Republi can machines should connive at the election of a full-blooded Democrat, preferring him to' a middle-of-the- road Republican. But the explanation is not dif ficult. Professional politicians are primarily interested in se curing and retaining the control of their own party organiza tions. They will always prefer no doubt in anyone's mind that he considers himself a great lib eral. Passing through Portland on his way to his daughter's wedding in Eugene, he called the civil rights bill a "hoax and a sham" and added that Dixie crat senators are "laughing up their sleeves over the strategy they have engineered." He added that Democratic lib erals in the senate were "sucked in by the trial-by-jury compro mise in the bill." It is a matter of at least some interest in Ore gon that he included his col, league, Senator Neuberger, among , the innocents who have been "sucked in" by the South ern slickers. fTHIS, I think, is a safe con- -- elusion: There has been a lot of POL ITICS in this civil rights bUl battle. And not MUCH sincerity. gUT- Let's be sincere on this point: EVERY QUALIFIED AMERI CAN SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO VOTE IF HE WANTS TO VOTE. , If the controversial civil rights bill that has . just been enacted is helpful in bringing that about, it will be worth all the political shooting it has en gendered. EXPERIENCE SUPPLIES ANSWERS! As Kipling once wrote: "I have six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew. Their names are, WHAT and WHY and WHEN, HOW and WHERE and WHO." Let us answer your insurance questions. Bill Fish LML from Russian domination in 1948. . As Gomulka is to. be accom panied, by Premier Josef Cyran kiewicz, his nominal chief, the visit will attain official rather than purely Communist party status. This indicates that some for mal Polish-Yugoslav agreements are in prospect. Whatever happens, the meet ing is pretty, sure to strengthen Gomulka's . position, after his own break from complete Rus sian domination last October. It also is pretty stye to strengthen Tito's influence in the Communist world. Hence any news that comes out Tomorrow Lippmann to lose an 'election if they can retain their" Control rather than win an election and lose their control. ' TT IS too early to say whether - the Wisconsin election- is a pattern of the shape, of things to come. But it does, show that there is a serious struggle for control within the Republican Party, and that there are pow erful . professional Republican politicians who would be quite prepared to lose the elections of 1958 and of 1960 if they could recover what they lost in 1952 their control of .the Republi can party. It is already reason ably plain that President Eis enhower has not been able to unite and to lead his party, and that the struggle for control will become sharper and sharper. It' is an interesting question, to which no one now knows the answer, whether Vice. President Nixon can do what the President is unable to do. We may sup pose that he will not be able to unite and to lead the party if the professional politicians make up their minds that it is in their vital interests to - take over the party, and that the price of doing that is to lose the next election respectively with Sen; Knowland as their candidate. . TTOWEVER, all political spec xx ulation now is, .however tempting subject to the heav iest kind of. discount. For it does not recken with what is likely to happen in the next two years both at home and abroad. Yet there are unmistakable signs ofi trouble ahead, and that by 1958 and 1960 the existing complac ency and tranquility of public opiniorf will be much disturbed. Thus, it is most unlikely that our foreign policy can now.be stabilized on the Dulles pacts, the Eisenhower doctrine, the Eisenhower level of military ex penditure, and at: the present level of foreign aid. The Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy is due for an agonizing reapprais al, and what this will mean in terms of voters no man can say, It is also unlikely that' 'the prosperity, which the country has enjoyed so much, :- can be stabilized, much less advanced, without first passing through a period of recession, of in creased unemployment, and a measure at least of financial hardship. The fact of the mat ter is that there is a serious in flation. It is said to be the steep est in our history in time of peace. We do not know whether the orthodox measures being used by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board to com bat it will in fact work. We do not know, for example whether the credit and budget ary measures ..: which were strong enough to arrest .the in flationary rise of prices would also mean much more unem ployment than Congress and the people will tolerate. We do not know whether full employment can be maintained without a continual inflation. Within that grave but unsolved problem, FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 PERL of the Tito-Gomulka conference is almost certain to be bad news from the Soviet Russian view point. The Russians have been com pelled to reconcile themselves to Gomulka's defiance. Gomulka has not attained the complete independence from Russian domination that Tito won. But Poland's policies are no longer directed from the Krem lin and Poland is no longer listed as a Soviet satellite. Tito is not only completely in dependent but he is a constant threat to Russia's steadily weak ening hold on the remaining Communist satellite countries. With Poland and Yugoslavia lost, Russia is trying to keep its grip on its remaining satellites. But its grip is likely to loosen progressively. , Communications Letters to the Editor must beat the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words' The CB&Q Is No Quitter To the Editor: Our Mri Pyle - has shared with me the editorial in the Medford Tribune of Au gust 6 and naturally we are de lighted with the nice things you again have to say about the Bur lington. ' " We appreciate your interest in rail passenger service and give you assurance that we of the Burlington believe in the future of rail passenger business. We feel that with the expanding economy and' growing popula tion there will always be a great many people who will desire to enjoy the comforts of fine rail road passenger service. With continued good wishes. J. J. Alms, General Passenger Traffic Manager, Burlington Lines 547 W. Jackson, . . tJt Chicago, 111. ' ,.; Chicago OP) . A punch card sorting installation keeps tab on customers' birthdays and wedding anniversaries for. .the Rolled Steel Corporation ..'of Skokie, 111., as well as giving in a few minutes a precise pic ture of the potential market for a particular steel item. The com pany sends greeting cards to its customers on the special occasions. there is wrapped up much of our political future. (C) 1957 New York Herald . Tribune Inc. VAUT SOME THING IN YOUR POCKET THAT IS BESIDES HOLES? Borrow The American Way . 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